(You can read more on the dearth of female MCs in our list here.) Rapper’s Delight, the track that arguably started it all, came in at number 14. There was a remarkable lack of women in the Top 25 only Queen Latifah’s 1993 hit “U.N.I.T.Y.” and Lauryn Hill’s supremely catchy “Doo Wop (That Thing)” appear in the list. The results are dominated by the so-called ‘Golden Age’ of hip-hop between the mid-80s and mid-90s, though there are some surprises from a more recent vintage with Kanye West’s Pusha T-assisted Runaway taking 12th place. There were more than 280 different songs named, a testament to the breadth and depth of the genre, and how the term ‘greatest’ can be interpreted in various ways. We asked 108 critics, artists, tastemakers, producers, and photographers from 15 different countries to name their personal top five hip-hop tracks of all time. The journey from the turntables of DJ Kool Herc to the addictive, meme-ified sounds of Megan Thee Stallion and Lil’ Nas X was long, but hip hop is here to stay. And it has become a truly global phenomenon, crossing ethnic, linguistic, and geographical boundaries. Kendrick Lamar won a Pulitzer Prize for his 2018 album DAMN. Young Thug has created a wake of imitators that span genres and sounds. Hip-hop has become a dominant cultural force, driving conversations about music, literature, and entertainment forward. The genre’s dominance of radio waves, streaming numbers, and billboard charts is undeniable, not to mention its influence on everything from avant-garde electronica to the DNA of mainstream pop music from artists like Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran and Ariana Grande.īut it’s more than that. Rapper’s Delight wasn’t the first hip-hop song, but it was the genre’s commercial Big Bang, and a sign that this music born in the housing project hallways and public parks of the Bronx was more than a passing fad. Then the song started moving units in the millions and climbed its way up the US Billboard charts, peaking at number 36 in 1980, and at number three on the UK Singles Chart. As children learn to sing an actual rhyme or song, it becomes simpler for them to remember the melody and even learn longer round songs in the future.When Sugarhill Gang’s Rapper’s Delight came out 40 years ago, it was dismissed by many tastemakers as a gimmicky track made to make money. Singing rounds gives young children the skills they need to learn how to sing harmony, which simply means singing their own part, when someone else is singing a different part. While at camp, children learn other types of round songs, such as Bottle of Pop or The More We Get Together. Other more serious but still popular round songs to teach to children include Make New Friends, White Coral Bells, and I Love the Flowers. Some of the more common musical round songs include silly songs like Row Row Row Your Boat, 3 Blind Mice, Frere Jacques, and Farmer in the Dell. For example, one child in a group would sing, " Row, row row your boat," and the next child would begin as the first one continued onto "gently down the stream." Common Round SongsĬhildren experience singing round songs not only growing up singing with family, but singing at school or around a campfire at summer camp. This makes it is easy to teach young children round songs as they only need to learn one line of melody. This allows different parts of the melody to be sung but still harmonize together beautifully. Simply put, a round is a musical piece where two or more people sing exactly the same melody, but each person begins at a different time. Singing Musical Round Songs with Childrenĭo you have images of the Von Trapp children running through your head singing " Doe a Deer," when you think of singing musical rounds with young children? If the thought doesn't scare you, and you'd actually like to teach your children more musical rounds, then here are some tips on how to incorporate them into your daily life.
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